RBS Experiments with In-House Digital Currency

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Even as many large banks are actively resisting the digital currency revolution, some – like the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) – are embracing it in unexpected ways. According to RBS subsidiary NatWest’s head of technology, Neil Bellamy, the bank has…

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HACKING OF CANADIAN ISP CA– USES VIRTUAL CURRENCY THEFT

According to an article recently published by SC Magazine,the hacking of a Canadian ISP has led to the wholesale theft of massive amounts of virtual currency. It seems that an as yet unidentified hacker broke into a Canadian Internet service provider […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…

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Malware mints virtual currency using victim’s GPU

Security researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that mints a digital currency known as Bitcoins by harnessing the immense power of an infected machine’s graphical processing units. According to new research from antivirus provider Symantec, Trojan.Badminer uses GPUs to generate virtual coins through a practice known as minting. That’s…

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